List of awards and nominations received by CeCe Peniston
The following is a list of music awards and/or nominations earned by the U.S. singer-songwriter CeCe Peniston, along with her music recording sales certifications and entries in the year-end charts.
Over her over twenty years long career, Peniston released only three solo studio albums: Finally, Thought 'Ya Knew and I'm Movin' On - each on A&M Records. She was still active, though, in recording singles also the last decade. Her fourth set CeCe, originally slated for its release in August 2011 on the independent label West Swagg Music Group, was not released by now.
Apart from being a Soul Train Music Award-nominee in 1993, Peniston won three ASCAP awards, three WMC awards, one Billboard Music Video Award and a BMI Award. She topped one year-end chart as Top Dance Music Club Play Artist of 1994 and received five sales certifications.
Before entering the music industry, Peniston participated in beauty competitions and was crowned in 1989, and in 1990. In addition, she was honored by the Governor's Key to the State of Arizona, and inducted into the Phoenix College Hall of Fame.
Music awards and nominations
ASCAP Awards
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is a not-for-profit performance rights organization that protects its members' musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating them accordingly. Peniston won three awards:;Notes
- A Steve Hurley received two ASCAP Writer's Awards for the songs recorded with Peniston. One for "Keep On Walkin'", while two years later another for "I'm Not Over You".
''Billboard'' Music Video Awards
;Notes
- B Claude Borenzweig, the director of "Finally" music video, won the category Best Director - Dance.
BMI Awards
Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in the United States. Peniston was not nominated. However, two remixes of her own compositions, "Nobody Else" and "He Loves Me 2", both co-written and performed by herself, brought the four time Grammy-nominee Steve "Silk" Hurley his first two nominations as Remixer of the Year, Non-Classical.Soul Train Music Awards
The Soul Train Music Awards is an annual award show aired in national broadcast syndication that honors the best in African American music and entertainment established in 1987. Peniston was nominated once :VH1 Awards
;Notes- C The series won Gloria Gaynor's hit "I Will Survive" from 1979. "Finally" finished as the 29th.
WMC Awards
The Winter Music Conference is a weeklong electronic music conference that is aimed at professionals such as artists, DJs, record label representatives, producers, promoters, radio and the media. Peniston scored three awards:Music recording sales certifications
is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies. The number of sales or shipments required for a silver, gold, platinum or diamond threshold depends on the population of the territory in which the title is released. These certificates are not automatic; the record label must pay a fee to have carried out an audit into the release in question.BPI certifications
The British Phonographic Industry is the UK record industry's trade association. The level of the award varies and certificates are usually awarded on the basis of the amount of units the release has shipped, rather than the amount it has sold. Peniston received two certifications:CRIA certifications
The Music Canada, formerly known as Canadian Recording Industry Association, represents the interests of Canadian companies that create, manufacture and market sound recordings. Similarly to the BPI, they provide audio or video certifications, using only different thresholds. Peniston received one certified award:RIAA certifications
The Recording Industry Association of America operates an award program for the releases that sell a large number of copies. Peniston received two certifications:Year-end charts
Year-end charts are usually calculated by an inverse-point system based solely on a title's performance during any given chart year.Australia
;ARIAARIA singles/albums chart is issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association, and the charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in the country. Top 100 End of Year chart profiles the whole year in music.
;Kent Music Report
Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums, compiled by David Kent from 1974 to 1998. Afterwards, RIAA, who had been using the report under license for a number of years, chose to produce their own charts as the 'ARIA Charts'.
Canada
;MuchMusic CountdownMuchMusic Countdown, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola is a ninety-minute music video program block aired on Canadian music television station MuchMusic.
;RPM
The Canadian singles/albums chart was originally published by magazine RPM. Since November 2000, the Canoe website publishes a comprehensive collection of the official Canadian record charts. Peniston entered a RPM Year-End Dance/Urban chart:
Netherlands
;Nederlandse Top 40Dutch Top 40 is one of the three official singles charts in the Netherlands. Apart from Single Top 100, the Top 40 and Mega Top 50 include airplay data. Peniston scored in one Dutch singles year-end chart of 1992 with two her songs:
UK
;Music WeekUK Top 75 is compiled by The Official Charts Company and published in Music Week magazine. The full list of Top 200 selling singles/albums in the United Kingdom is published exclusively in ChartsPlus. Unlike the U.S. charts, no airplay statistics are used for the UK list.
USA
;American Top 40American Top 40 is an international independent radio program that counts down the forty most popular songs in the United States of America. However apart from the US, the show is distributed by Premiere Radio Networks also in Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Singapore, China, India, the United Kingdom, Malaysia and several other territories. The AT40 charts are based on Mediabase data, published each Tueasday in USA Today. From 1990 to 1994, AT40 compiled its own year-end charts, which were very close to Billboards, actually.
;Billboard
The U.S. Billboard Year-End charts are a cumulative measure of a single or album's performance in the United States, based upon the Billboard magazine charts during any given chart year. Peniston topped one U.S. end of year chart, being nominated in total twenty-nine times:
;Cashbox
Cashbox, the most prominent competitor of Billboard and Record World, was a weekly magazine that published charts of song popularity in the United States of America.
;Club Chart
Club Chart is a U.S. list of Top 50 dance music/electronic songs. The chart is compiled monthly by a panel of DJs from across the States since 2003, and published via DanceMusic.about.com, an online resource.
;Notes
- D The song shared the 85th position in the Club Year-End chart with Nelly Furtado's hit Maneater in common.
was founded by the world-renowned musicologist Joel Whitburn who, along with a team of researchers, examines in detail all of Billboards music and video charts in addition. His annual pop listings therefore differ.
;Traxsource
Traxsource is a leading U.S.-based dance music digital music downloads site that specialize in Underground music, providing various bitrates and formats for each download.
Others
;Music VFMusic VF is a music database combining the U.S. and UK music charts entries since the 19th century. The U.S. charts information is based on Billboard's charts, while the British on the Official UK Charts Company stats.